Opinion from Marbella:
Fragile and tortured Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was murdered by the evil twisted monsters who lived behind closed doors in an untidy council house in a scruffy part of Solihull in the West Midland.
Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes haunted and tormented Arthur’s woefully short life in secret, no doubt.
But there were others involved. Others who should have rescued him from cruelty and madness.
Tustin and Hughes have been given paltry 20-odd year jail sentences for what they did. Their crimes has been recognised. Barely.
And the others?
Today these people are getting on with life, donning their Covid masks, going down the park, letting their dogs run free, their children play on the swings, saying hello to friends. Planning Christmas, moaning a little about a possible looming lockdown and uncertainty about their next holidays.
Then they go shopping at Waitrose and pay electronically for their muesli and vegan wine, and drive their tiny electric cars down electric avenue to their electronically-controlled semis in a better part of town.
These, ladies and gentlemen, are the police officers and the social workers who let Arthur die.
The Negligent Ones.
Who in the West Midlands Police Force will be honest about why why photos of Arthur’s injuries were ignored
Who at Solihull social services will be honest about why officials with images of his bruises failed to spot them in the real world of Arthur’s torture chamber?
His gran Joanne Hughes said: “Arthur was failed by the very authorities we are led to believe are there to ensure the safety of everyone.”
And those middle-class, middle-income, middle-of-the-road supposed protectors of our children and our society must answer for it. Now!
Andrew John Teague, a long-time campaigner for children, their rights and their families through D.A.D.s and NAAP, said: “Of all the horror stories we become made aware of this is by far truly heartbreaking
“Who could not shed a tear when knowing the story and hearing Is poor voice
NO ONE LOVES ME…
A father and girlfriend killed him in the most horrific way possible.
I hope they rot in jail.
A serious case review is needed. A young child was failed by a system that should have saved him from the monsters.
Will we hear the famous words by the powers to be WE ARE SORRY WE LEARN THE LESSONS.
But there have been so many serious case reviews and yet ,clearly not enough learning of lessons.
You can’t help but feel broken watching the news and seeing the horrific way Arthur was murdered.”
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Ralph Ripley Hall
I’m so upset by this – what a wonderful young boy. I can only dream of a punishment severe enough for the parents, and only faint at the pay and crass lack of responsibility of those responsible.
Sharon Parker
They should be prosecuted..ample opportunities to intervene and prevent this from happening. If these people faced repercussions for not actually doing their job properly then maybe things like this wouldn’t always happen. It’s just shocking..they are guilty of neglect
Sharon Parker
Ralph Ripley Hall it’s just so awful. Is there ever any punishment that makes any of this feel even slightly better…regardless of what happens now it doesn’t change how that poor little boy suffered or the fact that there are people willing to inflict that suffering..it is a bad world we live in and I fear for the child that I will leave in it
Gary Mckay
My heart broke hard when I heard about poor Arthur. I heard it at a ridiculous time and it made me go give my son a hug while he slept. The signs and the reports were there and no one did anything. Through personal experience I have found a lack of awareness and effectiveness from social services and there is nothing I can do about it. As a country we need a governing body made up of everyday people with different backgrounds not politicians that scrutinises the shortfalls of all the professional bodies.
Frank Byrne
Social services ect involved in this case need to be held accountable. There quick to judge people without looking at cases properly. There needs to be an enquiry looking at the whole system
Frank ByrneJon Sinnikal
I think the blame can be more fairly laid at the doors of those in government who have drastically cut the budgets of social services departments. And the police for that matter.
Social Services employees are frequently personally pilloried for problems arising from cases that are outliers, due to chronic underfunding of vital services.
As usual, ‘lessons will be learnt’, but not the major one which is that you can’t run reliable public services on a shoestring.
Your polemic is a thinly veiled example of victim-blaming.
Must do better.
Graham Edwards
+2
I read about two sentences then had to stop. In this we saw true, pure, unbelievable evil.
Christine Clark
Jon Sinnikal Surely this little boy didn’t die suddenly..social services were involved, they visited and said home looked happy???? Two sods eating ice-cream while a little boy is being abused and starved in the hallway!!! I ask you are you thick??? How much more evidence do you need apart from Arthur’s dead body???
This happening has touched all thinking people, deeply. They, the two despicable so-called human beings, should have their sentences doubled. Neither should see a life of freedom again. The terrible offshoot of this is that it brings back memories of other cases of child neglect, and worse. It highlights in our normally short memories that there can be no excuses – not the schools being closed, not the social workers being overworked. The signs were there and some unbelievable people let their ‘busy lives’ stop them from following up. In any job you have sometimes to prioritize and on anyone’s list this was an obvious priority. But they got on with their lives and left the situation to deteriorate. The premeditated murder of a child was the result. Along the chain of investigation and the visits, some one or more individuals will know why Arthur found no help. If they had the courage to come forward we may learn a lesson and put a stop to this insidious, ongoing series of tragedies.
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